Lectionary blog for July 10 Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Deuteronomy 30:9-14; Psalm 25:1-10; Colossians 1:1-14; Luke 10:25-37 C.K. Chesterton is probably best known to most people as the writer of…
Since education for children and youth is universal throughout North America, homework tutoring presents an opportunity for ministry for virtually every ELCA congregation. Tutoring not only helps the students get…
Lectionary blog for July 3 Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 66:10-14; Psalm 66:1-9; Galatians 6:1-16; Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 When I was in college, I worked on a tobacco farm in…
Lectionary blog for June 26 Sixth Sunday after Pentecost 1 Kings 19:15-16; Psalm 16; Galatians 5:1, 13-25; Luke 9:51-62 In about a month, people from all over the world will…
Lectionary blog for June 19 Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 65:1-9, Psalm 22:19-28; Galatians 3:23-29; Luke 8:26-39 One Sunday afternoon about 35 years ago I was driving across eastern North…
The phone rang just as Eve, an ELCA seminary student, arrived home from a run. It was her weekend as chaplain-on-call for the hospice facility and a family had requested…
Lectionary blog for June 5 Third Sunday after Pentecost 1 Kings 17:17-24; Psalm 30; Galatians 1:11-24; Luke 7:11-17 My grandfather, Reid Chilton, was a great storyteller in the old Appalachian…
Lectionary blog for May 29 Second Sunday after Pentecost I Kings 8:22-23, 41-43; Psalm 96:1-9; Galatians 1:1-12; Luke 7:1-10 I have lived in several small towns and rural places in…
Series editor’s note: To gain deeper understandings about Christian vocation, I turned to the deans of our ELCA seminaries for theological and personal reflections on their callings. All were able…
Every Wednesday evening, students share a meal and worship together at Agape House, the Lutheran-Episcopal campus ministry at San Diego State University. The meal is a long-standing tradition of fellowship,…
Lectionary blog for May 22 The Holy Trinity – First Sunday after Pentecost Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-25 About 20 years ago I served a church…
Lectionary blog for May 15, 2016 Day of Pentecost Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; Romans 8:14-17; John 14:8-17 25-27> A few years ago, USA Today had a piece about the…
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